Love what is happening in the Forrest Frank arena: https://www.facebook.com/reel/2009083946589586 Favorite Substack this past week: 💭 What do you do with sadness?For me, I’ve often ignored it, distracted from it, or covered it up. But in prayer, God began to show me why. He reminded me that prayer isn’t about avoiding pain—it’s about bringing it…

Yesterday dear daughter turned 27. She is now the mother of 4. Where did the time go? I still remember her princess dressing 4-year-old days, and her 12-year-old figuring out my own style ways, and her 17-year-old helping self, her young “I just got married” move to a tiny home, and I’m a mom, now…

FAVORITE POST FROM THIS PAST WEEK: I was reading a blog and came across this statement: As believers, do we know how the law changed when the arrival of the New Covenant rendered the Old Covenant “obsolete”? Obsolete: no longer practiced or used, out of date, gone out of use, of a discarded type Where…

Song by Jordan Smith You may remember Jordan singing on The Voice – he grew up singing in his church, since The Voice he has married his long-term girlfriend, now wife Kristen and making music! Verse map: I like this clip: This is a great song for someone getting baptized. Remembering: 5 years ago, yesterday,…

A powerful prayer that I came across: Something I think I might start doing: My kind of style of verse mapping and prayer. I love words and defining them. And this year I have been more intentional in prayer. I think I like it. This is a good breakdown of how people can throw off…

A Song For You: The Cause and Effect and Cause Faith That Moves Through Love James 2:14–26 — the famous “faith without works is dead” passage. This place in scripture has stirred debate, especially when compared to Paul’s teaching in Romans. Paul says we’re saved by faith alone. James says faith without works is dead….